08-05-2022, 10:32 AM
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#121
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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Originally Posted by Matata
Traditional media companies with a similar reach as infowars make way, way, way more money and are completely dependent on Big Pharma, massive corporate conglomerates (like GM) and billionaires (Bill Gates alone has 'donated' $300M+ to traditional western media companies). Every estimate i can find of Alex's personal wealth puts him in the $2.5M - $10M range, which is really ####ty given his reach and how much revenue he generates. If his focus was to amass personal wealth in whatever way he could, hed be worth $100M+.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usn...%3fcontext=amp
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Economist: Alex Jones, His Company Worth up to $270 Million
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08-05-2022, 10:41 AM
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#122
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Barnet - North London
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
A friend of mine told me about the app Ground News (which is also a site, https://ground.news/). It's essentially a news aggregator that also shows the left / center / right bias of coverage, and the factuality of a given site. Pretty slick execution. |
Thanks, that looks interesting. Do you subscribe to it - if so, do you think it is worth it?
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08-05-2022, 10:43 AM
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#123
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Barnet - North London
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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
I just got my haircut at a seedy-looking barbershop by my new place. I love seedy barbershops, usually. Sat down, saw lots of Canadian flags. Uh oh, I thought, alarm bells going off in my head. Should I make a break for it? Still, could be a proud new Canadian: guy had a thick accent. But then I looked closer. The convoy stickers. The antivax stickers. Then I saw the 5G stickers, the chemtrail stickers, a fk Trudeau sticker and a George Soros sticker. My brain was reeling from all of this conspiracy paraphernalia, and it was too late: the bib was being fastened. I still thought about making a run for it.
To make matters worse, it was a slow, methodical haircut. Every bit of questioning on my part was met by.... "You have to do the research." I heard about 5G and dead birds in Greece, and an awful lot about "them". Every time I asked who "they" were, I got the response: "Exactly! Who are they?"
It's getting weird out there.
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I’m in Greece right now, but I haven’t seen any dead birds.
Maybe Kefalonia is the wrong part.
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08-05-2022, 10:50 AM
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#124
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
A rich people party out in the woods where dudes would just piss wherever out of convenience? That's about all I remember from Ronson's book about it...
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What's this story?
I don't think i've heard it before. can't seem to find just googling
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08-05-2022, 11:14 AM
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#125
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Cappy
What's this story?
I don't think i've heard it before. can't seem to find just googling
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He snuck into the Bohemian Grove. It's a super weird annual retreat in California. But Jones claimed he was witnessing Satanic rituals, when it was more akin to a bunch of drunk Republicans acting like frat boys.
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08-05-2022, 11:19 AM
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#126
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
I just got my haircut at a seedy-looking barbershop by my new place. I love seedy barbershops, usually. Sat down, saw lots of Canadian flags. Uh oh, I thought, alarm bells going off in my head. Should I make a break for it? Still, could be a proud new Canadian: guy had a thick accent. But then I looked closer. The convoy stickers. The antivax stickers. Then I saw the 5G stickers, the chemtrail stickers, a fk Trudeau sticker and a George Soros sticker. My brain was reeling from all of this conspiracy paraphernalia, and it was too late: the bib was being fastened. I still thought about making a run for it.
To make matters worse, it was a slow, methodical haircut. Every bit of questioning on my part was met by.... "You have to do the research." I heard about 5G and dead birds in Greece, and an awful lot about "them". Every time I asked who "they" were, I got the response: "Exactly! Who are they?"
It's getting weird out there.
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Its like wearing your political, religious and social beliefs on your sleeve is becoming a normalized aspect of society.
Its very strange that we have to know everything about everyone all the time and people seem more than willing to broadcast this information to the world.
Its very unusual. I'm all for weird, but this is getting out of hand.
To circle this back to Jones, denying that Sandy Hook happened or was staged or whatever is essentially akin to Holocaust denialism.
All the proof anyone could ever want to confirm that an event occurred is there for all to see, but some overpowering need to somehow convince themselves that they are the smartest people in the room is overriding common sense.
Its quite baffling.
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08-05-2022, 11:30 AM
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#127
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Originally Posted by kirant
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It's..... It's beautiful....
That post is everything I ever wanted on this forum while not knowing I wanted it. How did I miss that?!
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08-05-2022, 11:34 AM
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#128
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Norm!
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Do we honestly believe that he believes all of the conspiracy theories that he backs up.
Or is it as PT Barnum stated, there's a sucker born every minute, and Jones knows the market?
He's a con, and a flimflam man, and what he didn't understand was that his customers are start raving lunatics. And he kept pushing and pushing and pushing.
More video and book and pamphlet sales, more hits on whatever social media platforms he uses now.
He appeals to the paranoid, angry, frightened conspiracy mob out there and based on his revenue numbers, its a large group of paying customers.
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08-05-2022, 11:41 AM
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#129
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Originally Posted by Cappy
What's this story?
I don't think i've heard it before. can't seem to find just googling
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Them: Adventures with Extremists , by Jon Ronson.
From what I recall it's only 1 chapter in this book...the Bohemian Grove thing turned out to be kinda like half Burning Man / half summer camp / half networking event for rich people. Ronson and Jones snuck in together and observed the same stuff. Ronson described stodgy rich people letting their hair down a bit. Jones twisted inconsequential events like men urinating in the woods into satanic rituals. (again, IIRC from several years ago)
Bohemian Grove
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08-05-2022, 11:55 AM
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#130
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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Originally Posted by Blaster86
It's..... It's beautiful....
That post is everything I ever wanted on this forum while not knowing I wanted it. How did I miss that?!
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The memories of some people amaze me. I remember it now, but it would have been long gone from my memories without the refresher. Even with something as funny as that one, remembering forum posts from 8 years ago is inconceivable to me.
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08-05-2022, 03:54 PM
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#131
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: wearing raccoons for boots
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Punitive of 45 million
Inline with what the lawyer had said of approx a 10 times multiplier
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08-05-2022, 03:57 PM
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#132
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Boca Raton, FL
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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
Punitive of 45 million
Inline with what the lawyer had said of approx a 10 times multiplier
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08-05-2022, 04:00 PM
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#133
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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Originally Posted by kirant
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Next thing we know, Alex Jones will claim to have fallen victim to vaginal expansion.
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08-05-2022, 04:19 PM
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#134
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Austria, NOT Australia
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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
Punitive of 45 million
Inline with what the lawyer had said of approx a 10 times multiplier
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08-05-2022, 04:23 PM
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#135
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Matata
TEvery estimate i can find of Alex's personal wealth puts him in the $2.5M - $10M range, which is really ####ty given his reach and how much revenue he generates.
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Update needed lol.
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08-05-2022, 04:30 PM
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#137
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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
Punitive of 45 million
Inline with what the lawyer had said of approx a 10 times multiplier
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Looks low, wish it could be another 10 times more than this.
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08-05-2022, 04:36 PM
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#138
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by chemgear
Looks low, wish it could be another 10 times more than this.
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Save some for all the other families he defamed.
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08-05-2022, 04:38 PM
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#139
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by Cappy
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A shell company probably located in Panama. Those families probably wont see a thin dime.
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08-05-2022, 04:59 PM
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#140
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: wearing raccoons for boots
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Originally Posted by chemgear
Looks low, wish it could be another 10 times more than this.
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2 more monetary judgements to come
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